I have a newsletter form on my website that accepts frist name, last
name and email. The sorry spam crawlers are submitting bogus
information into the form. Most of the time, they are sending the
first name and last name in both name fields so that I recieve
something like this:
You have a new
Another suggestion in addition to validating the name fields is to use
Captcha
To help stop the spamming of the bots.
-Original Message-
From: Scott Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:41 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:02 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
Another suggestion in addition to validating the name fields is to use
Captcha
To help stop the spamming of the bots.
-Original Message-
From: Scott Wilson
Be careful, some names have a space in it Bobby Jo.
You could check to make sure that first name and last name are
different... However, if you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm, you know that
is not a good solution (Remember Lewis Lewis and the kideny??).
The best bet is to go with some other
Aaron Roberson wrote:
I have a newsletter form on my website that accepts frist name, last
name and email. The sorry spam crawlers are submitting bogus
information into the form. Most of the time, they are sending the
first name and last name in both name fields so that I recieve
something
I know that nobody wants to put their site visitors through the
trouble of entering some anti-spam verification code into the form but
in this case I really don't think that Capthca or Math is the right
solution.
I would rather just use a regular expression. The reason is that email
newsletter
ColdFusion Help?
www.bennadel.com/ask-ben/
-Original Message-
From: Aaron Roberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
I know that nobody wants to put their site visitors through the trouble
profiled sites.
-Original Message-
From: Aaron Roberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
I know that nobody wants to put their site visitors through the trouble
of entering some anti-spam
.
-Original Message-
From: Aaron Roberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:34 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
I know that nobody wants to put their site visitors through the trouble
of entering some anti-spam verification code
Ben,
The nice thing about your Javascript suggestion is that people will
think that they are just confirming their subscription (which is true)
while in reality it would be filtering spam. Another thing is that
they will already be committed having submitted the form, and would
likely click the
Create a small flash form. Most people use it and should prevent most bots
from triggering submitted events, since it is a compiled swf.
Teddy
On 11/8/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben,
The nice thing about your Javascript suggestion is that people will
think that they are
I mean most people use the flash player not flash forms.
Teddy
On 11/8/06, Teddy Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Create a small flash form. Most people use it and should prevent most
bots from triggering submitted events, since it is a compiled swf.
Teddy
On 11/8/06, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL
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-Original Message-
From: Aaron Roberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:14 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
Ben,
The nice thing about your
Unfortunately, I can't create flash forms since I am using BlueDragon.
I would have to create the form in Flash manually, which is an idea...
-Aaron
On 11/8/06, Teddy Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I mean most people use the flash player not flash forms.
Teddy
On 11/8/06, Teddy Payne [EMAIL
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-Original Message-
From: Aaron Roberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:14 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
Ben,
The nice thing about your
/downloads/bhcaptcha/
:-)
-Original Message-
From: Ben Nadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 2:41 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
What about putting a Javascript confirmation upon form submission that
sets a value:
form onsubmit
, November 08, 2006 2:41 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
What about putting a Javascript confirmation upon form submission that
sets a value:
form onsubmit=if (confirm(.)){ [SET VALUE]; return(true); } else {
return(false); };
In the above line, the [SET
, November 08, 2006 5:14 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
Also take into consideration some of these bots look for the form action and
fields and create their own post to the URL. I started using an accesskey on
some of my customers OLD formmail.cgi Wrote a custom
-Talk
Subject: Re: Help with Form Validation Against Spam
Sandra,
I had read of that technique in the comments of Ben Nadel's blog post about
his Math technique. At present I get a few spam submissions a week and they
are all of the same format (first and last name in both fields and a well
formed
This was just 'Slashdotted'
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1836
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